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Comment author: simplicio 06 September 2013 08:20:12PM 8 points [-]

I prefer to say we're all just particles bumping around. Personally, I don't see how any of those particles, no matter how they are arranged, can sometimes choose to ignore the laws of physics and go their own way.

I personally can't see how a monkey turns into a human. But that's irrelevant because that is not the claim of natural selection. This makes a strawman of most positions that endorse something approximately like free will. Also:

For purely practical reasons, the legal system assigns "fault" to some actions and excuses others.

Just the legal system? Gah. Everybody on earth does this about 200 times a day.

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 September 2013 06:19:37PM -1 points [-]

I personally can't see how a monkey turns into a human. But that's irrelevant because that is not the claim of natural selection. This makes a strawman of most positions that endorse something approximately like free will.

I don't think that most positions that endorse free will don't believe at all that evolution happens.

When it comes to contempory philosophers I think a minority of those who advocate for the existence of free will deny evolution.

Comment author: simplicio 10 September 2013 09:21:34PM 2 points [-]

I know. I was making an analogy between a strawman of NS and a strawman of free will. Please read the "this" in "This makes a strawman" as referring to the OP.

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